joel fishbane

shakespeare unbard

a 38 episode podcast in which joel fishbane explores each of Shakespeare's plays, offering tidbits, trivia, and revisionist interpretations of all those plays they made you read in school. 

Shakespeare Unbard, Episode 27: Spoiler Alert: All's Well That Ends Well Does Not Actually End Well

Interpreters of All's Well That End Well often play it as a romantic comedy, but this is an impossible task. The main character blackmails a man into marrying her, pursues him across Europe, commits sexual assault on him, fakes her death, humiliates him, and then blackmails him again into accepting her. In Episode 27, Joel looks at this complicated and often charmless play. 

In this episode you'll hear excerpts and clips from:

 

  • Arkangel Recordings. All's Well That Ends Well. 2014.

  • Shakespeare, William. All's Well That Ends Well. The Riverside Shakespeare, Houghton and Mifflin, 1974.

 

Films discussed:

 

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